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John C. Reilly Took Animated Role to Heart in ‘Wreck-It Ralph’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 30, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—John C. Reilly is a thoroughly committed actor—even when he is only voicing an animated character as he does in Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph.” While some actors regard doing voiceover animation as something akin to going on vacation, Reilly threw himself [...]

Denzel Washington Was Onboard ‘Flight’ from Takeoff

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 28, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Oscar winner Denzel Washington has played a number of heroic characters over the years like anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and poet Melvin Tolson to villainous character like dirty cop Alonzo Harris and notorious heroin dealer Frank Lucas, as well [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Apted Makes Waves with ‘Chasing Mavericks’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 24, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—You could call director Michael Apted a pinch hitter. When fellow filmmaker Curtis Hanson had to drop out of making the surf movie “Chasing Mavericks” just four weeks into filming, Apted, whose credits range for the James Bond actioner “The World is N [...]

Gerard Butler Hangs Ten in ‘Chasing Mavericks’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 23, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Gerard Butler looks tanned as he arrives for an interview to talk about his new surfing movie “Chasing Mavericks.” But the Scottish heartthrob insists the source of his tropical coloring isn’t the result of soaking in the great outdoors. “Tanning bed [...]

Six Degrees of Tom Hanks in ‘Cloud Atlas’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 22, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Tom Hanks arrives for an interview looking a little bulkier than usual. The two-time Oscar winner also is sporting a thin mustache. One almost expects him to pull out a pocket watch and speak in a southern accent as he waits for a publicist to give hi [...]

Halle Berry Times Six in ‘Cloud Atlas’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 22, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Halle Berry arrives for an interview with her breakfast in tow. The Oscar winning actress (“Monster’s Ball”) is on a tight schedule today and can’t waste a moment to stop to eat. She is promoting her new movie, the strange and surreal Warner Bros sci- [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Nichols is on the Case in ‘Alex Cross’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 17, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Minutes after a press conference to promote her newest movie “Alex Cross,” Rachel Nichols is out of her designer duds and back into jeans and a t-shirt, plopped casually on a love seat in a ritzy Beverly Hills hotel. “I love to be comfortable,” she sa [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Stone Makes A Frightening Directorial Debut with ‘Greystone Park’

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|October 17, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and in the case of Sean Stone, son of legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone, that certainly is the case. The 27-year-old, who has appeared as an actor in 13 of his father’s films, including “Salvador” and [...]

Olivia Thirlby Explores the Path of Sexuality in ‘Nobody Walks’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 16, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Olivia Thirlby almost was cast in the acclaimed new HBO series “Girls,” but conflicts with other projects changed all that. Still, the 26-year-old actress hasn’t ruled out eventually guest starring on the series created by her childhood pal Lena Dunha [...]

Matthew Fox Found in ‘Alex Cross’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 16, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When “Lost” went off the air, Matthew Fox, who played the heroic doctor Jack Shephard, decided to stay out of the limelight for a while. For a year he went home to Oregon and was simply a husband and father. (He has two children with his wife Margheri [...]